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noun

Vigilance n.

The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection. "And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread."

Guard; watch. (Obs.) "In at this gate none pass the vigilance here placed."

Vigilance committee, a volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.

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"Vigilance" Quotes from Famous Books

... 9th. "So this is the end of our attempt to winter in McMurdo Sound. Hard luck after four months' buffeting, for the last seven weeks of which we nursed our moorings. Our present situation calls for increasing vigilance. It is five weeks to the middle of winter. There is no sun, the light is little and uncertain, and we may expect many blizzards. We have no immediate water-supply, as only a small quantity of fresh ice was aboard when ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... object was not fixed either; his eyes pursued it with unwearied vigilance, and even in speaking to me, were ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

... the banks and the credit system; the attempts to reduce the currency to gold and silver; the system of collecting the public revenues in coin; the withdrawal of the public moneys from all the banks as a basis of paper circulation; and the sleepless vigilance of the South in resisting all systems of internal improvements by the General Government. Its statesmen foresaw that a paper currency would keep up the price of Northern products one or two hundred per cent. above the ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

... disposed his auditors to concur in his loyal sentiments, and willingly to obey his orders. After this, Centeno sent one of his captains with a detachment to Chicuito, a place belonging particularly to the king, between Orcaza and Las Charcas, with orders to guard the passes with the utmost vigilance, till he and the royalists were in full readiness to execute their principal enterprize, as will be related ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr

... the others. In South Carolina "a cargo of near three hundred slaves was sent out of the Colony by the consignee, as being interdicted by the second article of the Association."[25] In Virginia the vigilance committee of Norfolk "hold up for your just indignation Mr. John Brown, Merchant, of this place," who has several times imported slaves from Jamaica; and he is thus publicly censured "to the end that all such foes to the rights of British ...

— The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America - 1638-1870 • W. E. B. Du Bois

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